Areca 24/4 Internal/External Port Pcie 3.0 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA Raid Controller 2Gb Cache - Manual (Page 209)

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Controller with onboard LAN port, you can directly plug an Ethernet
cable to the controller LAN port, then enter the McBIOS RAID
manager to configure the network setting. After network setting
configured and saved, you can find the current IP address in the
McBIOS RAID manager "System Information" page.
From a remote pc, you can directly open a web browser and enter
the IP address. Then enter user name and password to login and
start your management. You can find the firmware update feature
from the "Raid system Console" on the "System Controls" option.
A-3 Upgrading Firmware Through nflash DOS Utility
Areca now offers an alternative means communication for the
SAS RAID controller – Upgrade the all files (BIOS, BOOT, FIRM
and MBR0) without necessary system starting up to running
the ArcHTTP proxy server. The nflash utility program is a DOS
application, which runs in the DOS operating system. Be sure of
ensuring properly to communicate between SAS RAID controller
and nflash DOS utility. Please make a bootable DOS floppy diskette
or USB devices from other Windows operating system and boot up
the system from those bootable devices.
• Starting the nflash Utility
You do not need to short any jumper cap on running nflash
utility. The nflash utility provides an on-line table of contents,
brief descriptions of the help sub-commands. The nflash utility
put on the <CD-ROM>\Firmware directory. You can run the
<nflash> to get more detailed information about the command
usage. Typical output looks as below: